I have been struggling with my blog-roll lately. I don’t know if the manosphere is just getting better lately, or I’m just slow to figure it out. I’m guessing some of each. Either way, I’ve been holding off on announcing some additions to my blogroll while trying to come up with a credible story on how I make such decisions.

But I still don’t have one.

New additions:

Badger Nation (The Badger Hut). No introduction needed, since Badger’s well thought out comments have appeared on my site from very early on. Badger’s interest in helping young people of both sexes always evident. I think if I had to pick where to send someone new to game and the manosphere first it would probably be Badger. He has a kind way of speaking the truth.

If you find yourself still looking for more new sites, periodically check out the blogrolls of grerp, Elusive Wapiti, and Hawaiian Libertarian (after first reading their excellent content). I really wish wordpress had the blogroll feature that blogspot does. I’m assuming everyone already looks at Ferdinand’s weekly link roundup. Ferdinand must be a voracious reader. Also, feel free to list any blogs in the comments which you think I or my readership would enjoy.

The bad news: As you probably already know Solomon II is hanging it up. Don’t blame me. We convened a Council Of The Manosphere to try to stop him. After a lengthy and heated debate over the proper way to execute the manosphere handshake, elders Zed and Anon 68 brought us to order. We unanimously voted that Solomon should keep blogging. However, he said something in Latin which (taking into account the hand gesture accompanying it) roughly translates to “pound sand”. Since we can’t make him keep writing, you may as well enjoy his final posts.

S2 kill his blog, just like Seasons of Tumult and Discord. I get it if they don’t want to write but why delete the knowledge and truth nuggets? Everytime these guys take down their pages we have to rediscover truths again. It slows us down. Is anyone trying to backup these blogs?

I just learned of Solomon II’s blog today, and only because it was shutting down. Some blog had a list of his best posts, and I managed to save Drive Thru Boyfriends, which I just reposted on my blog. I wish I had the rest of his posts.

Solomon’s II blog is/was one of the most painfully truthful blogs out there. Too bad the Manosphere Council couldn’t convince him to stick around. He had a way of telling guys the truth in a way that was hard to ignore, especially when it included a hot body shot of a preacher’s daughter 🙂

Solomon posted just hours before you did that the credentials to his blog had been compromised and unpublished media had been stolen. He’s deleted the blog. And I was all ready to write a post about how great it was that he was going out on his own terms and not in some Lady-Raine-stalking-Roissy kind of way. It’s our loss.

On another note, it seems like manosphere blogs are converging to one of two WordPress themes. Weird.

Also, readers new to these parts should spent a day or two with the archives of Roosh and Roissy. If you want to get truly old-school, check out the original single-cell life forms of the proto-manosphere, Tucker Max and Maddox.

S2 had to delete it, he had a security breach and he has a job. He didn’t intend to take the material down when he stopped posting but the security breach changed that, which is understandable, really.

I was really disappointed when I tried to get on his blog this morning, to find out everything had been deleted, especially as I was about to start saving his pearls of wisdom myself. May this serve as a lesson against the evils of procrastination. Perhaps there is a way of contacting him? I’m sure he still has copies of his stuff.

“On another note, it seems like manosphere blogs are converging to one of two WordPress themes. Weird.”

I can’t speak for anybody else, but I use a free account on wordpress.com because I don’t feel like paying money for my blog. I also don’t feel like paying for a “premium” theme. Those two factors combined means that I have a choice between about 60 themes that all more or less suck, so I just did the best I could.

Like everyone else I’m very surprised and sorry to see that Solomon’s site is gone. He was easily the funniest blogger in the manosphere, and he used his humor to make critical points.

Simon Grey has saved Drive Thru Boyfriends (see his comment above), and I fortunately have the original image from when I referenced it. The same is true for his Elevator Speech, which he posted on the spearhead. The image there still loads from Solomon’s site, but I have a copy anyway from when I linked to it.